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Dropbox using (2) different Naming Conventions and Date Formats
Hello,
Recently Dropbox has been uploading photos with different file names and date formats. Example: some files will be named "2022-04-07 17.07.01" and others will be named "Photo Apr 07 4 29 40". All photos were taken on the same device (iPhone). Also, all photos are uploading to multiple computers in an office, is this a syncing issue or something else? I have already gone into settings and set Date Format preferences to "YYYY-MM-DD".
Thank you 🙂
Hi delraybeachplasticsurgery, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
If you're using the camera upload feature, all images will have the '2022-04-07 17.07.01' format, whereas images uploaded via the manual upload feature, or by dragging and dropping, will have the original filename on them, which could be similar to the 'Photo Apr 07 4 29 40' you saw.
If you need any further assistance, please let me know!
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi delraybeachplasticsurgery, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
If you're using the camera upload feature, all images will have the '2022-04-07 17.07.01' format, whereas images uploaded via the manual upload feature, or by dragging and dropping, will have the original filename on them, which could be similar to the 'Photo Apr 07 4 29 40' you saw.
If you need any further assistance, please let me know!
Excuse me, but you’re saying that pictures uploaded from the camera are named in a way and pictures uploaded manually from the app are named in a different way.
But we already noticed that. Can you kindly comment on the Why??
what is the logic in that? The pictures end up all out of order! It’s a mess!
is there any benefit or reason for the naming format being different? Is there an option in settings to chose wich format we want??
- Calvin2DBX
Hi oceanside22,
Thanks for reaching out!
Glad to clarify about the automated name changes.
Files you add, manually, will keep whatever names they had originally. There is no automation, unlike when Camera Uploads is used, so they don't change, unless you add a custom name rule to the destination folder yourself.
You can specify a format for automating name changes in any folder you like, with the steps from here: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/naming-conventions
Hope that helps!
Okay, but WHY does Dropbox use two different naming conventions? And why is there not yet and automated feature to rename the files from one naming convention to the other?
Please please!
Please a litle help.
I can’t find the setting to change the file name formatting. Currently my dropbox app uses something like “Photo August 17 2023 3 45 PM” but this format causes a sorting issue, as August will be listed before January.I would like the automatic format to be 2023 08 17. Is there a way to set this??
Can you share how do you sort your files?
